We
all know that voting is important, but it’s SO important that one Michigan
man actually came back from the dead to make sure his vote was cast:
"He was dead," [registered nurse] Houston said. "He
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Eventually, women pushed back against extreme fashions. But not before the grandmother of Cathy Rozman wore an entire parade float:
My grandmother, Mary Svetich Rozman, was 16 years old when she was Queen of the May at the May Day parade in Calumet, Michigan in 1917,” writes Cathy Rozman from Plymouth. “The trick to this float is [...]

Every now and then, you’ll see Sluggo pop up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s a character created by street artist David Zinn. He’s made a mess here, but normally, he’s a helpful fellow. You can see more photos of Sluggo’s adventures at the link.
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As we’ve been seeing lately, everything politicians have done since birth ends up being in the news—especially during election time. Game show appearances are no exception, so check out these seven politico contestants. Some did surprisingly well; others should definitely stick to their day jobs.
1. Ronald Reagan on I’ve Got a Secret, 1961
A pre-politics Reagan [...]

The road to 50 states was littered with wannabes who couldn’t wait to declare themselves—but never quite got to full statehood. Here are 12 states that could have been.
1. Franklin
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After the Revolutionary War, it became common for states to gift their westernmost lands to the newly-founded (but broke) American government to repackage and sell [...]

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Things have gotten a lot stranger since we last checked in on the world of Half-Life, and either the “fumes” are getting to us or the Headcrabs have learned to sing and dance and are now more concerned with entertaining humans than eating them!
The Michigan J. Protocol was created by Zachariah Scott, with the [...]

In 2005, Kalamazoo, Michigan, went from a somewhat below-average place to live to a powerful magnet of a city in just one day. Seven years later, the New York Times magazine looks at how the hope of higher education has transformed the town.
Back in November 2005, when this year’s graduates were in sixth grade, the [...]

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Reports of suspicious packages are common across the United States. Police take all reports seriously — as they should — and they look into every unmanned briefcase or wayward box. More often than not, abandoned gym bags just wind up being lost gym bags. Here are 15 fairly recent suspicious package reports from alert [...]

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The name dates back to 1903, when most deliveries were made by horse-drawn wagons. The driver was referred to as a “teamster,” because he was the one who managed the team that was pulling the load.
Before they unionized, the average teamster in the late 1800s often worked 18-hour days and was expected to not [...]

Neil Armstrong is remembered as both a “reluctant American hero” and “the spiritual repository of spacefaring dreams.” He was man of few words, but those he chose to share were significant and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek. Here are some notable letters and notes written by the first man on the moon.
1. Its true beauty, however, was [...]